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Right, here is my now vastly expanded and revised document on using ant in
production.
Changes
-lots more stuff including: directory structures, cross platform issues,
when to get an ant update
-a bit of an introduction and some tailpiece on putting it all together
-links to the tasks as they are named in the paper
I also titled the document 'Ant in Anger: using ant in a production
environment', as one of the lessons I've learned from getting papers
published or read is that the title is nearly everything.
As it stands I have now documented the practices and process I have learned
through a few team projects using ant as the build tool. That does not make
it complete -other people doing different projects with different team
structures will have learned different lessons; -so other peoples
contributions are going to be be needed to.
In particular, if there are practices I suggest that are utterly broken,
better directory structures for complex projects or simply more cross
platform issues, these need to go in.
Incidentally, I think it would be very handy if the ant documentation were
actually indexed so as to be a click or two from the ant home page. Right
now you get the stuff if you download ant, but otherwise it is kind of
fiddly -you have to know where to look. Far more convenient would be a quick
link to the documentation bundle, particularly the task list.
Steve
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